How can i set the filetype? But if the mime type can rendered by the browser it won't download it, but it will display it. I think we're making this more difficult than it need be. Open your JS console on this page and put it location.
I don't have IE to test it, but it works for webkit. Show 8 more comments. Eli Grey What about blocking popups? Plain text in Firefox is opened in a new. Only Chrome tries to save it, but it changes the extension I need a dotfile with no extension. It works for me in chrome. W3C says:Work on this document has been discontinued and it should not be referenced or used as a basis for implementation.
Saving large files Long data URIs can give performance problems in browsers. Forcing a download If the data is text or an image, the browser can open the file, instead of saving it to disk.
Steve Eynon 4, 1 1 gold badge 26 26 silver badges 44 44 bronze badges. Can I show a dialog popup to specify a folder directory to save the file? Calvin: I've updated the answer to explain how to force a download and provide a filename. For other browsers, your only option is to manually choose "Save as" from the context menu of the download link.
Jek-fdrv: Only the Blob-urls work in Safari. The download attribute and File constructor are not supported by Safari, so you cannot force a download, meaning that the blob will probably be opened in the browser itself, and you cannot specify a filename.
For the given example, you should still be able to download the file with Safari using the link's context menu. This is a very helpful and informative answer. One more thing that may help people like me: after setting document. Show 2 more comments. Yassir Ennazk Yassir Ennazk 5, 4 4 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges. What is the effect of does the contentType? What is it used for?
This doesn't work for me on FF36 or IE If I replace a. I haven't tried Chrome. Pekka Pekka k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. For most people, this is probably the answer that they'll need. So even though it doesn't meet my specific requirements as explained above I'm marking it as the accepted answer. Toji ah, I see.
Maybe re-ask and re-phrase under the HTML 5 banner and tag accordingly? That would be likely to attract those users who know about that specific field still a comparably small crowd right now, I suppose. Has the downloadify. The present site seems completely unrelated to the answer given. Ixx well to be fair, that was added after the answer was posted.
Still, you're right. The answer below should be accepted — Pekka. Show 9 more comments. Simple Solution! Todua T. Todua Hi, do you know how to specify the "download" attribute behavior using window. This approach will create text data on the fly and then use JavaScript to create a text file and then download it. Attach an event listener looking for a click to a download button. In this approach, we will use the Axios library to download files.
Blob stands for Binary Large Object and is a data type that can store binary data. This method is not restricted to the plain text entered by the user like the previous method. We can request any sort of data from an API and then use this approach to save data inside our computer. Company Questions. Artificial Intelligence. Cloud Computing. Data Science. Angular 7. Machine Learning. Data Structures. Operating System.
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What are the differences between this approach and creating a Blob? Based on Rick answer which was really helpful. I was not able to accept the suggestion. I updated the code. Caniuse support table for Blob: Here is a Fiddle. This below function worked. Denys Rusov Denys Rusov 5 5 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Sweta Jain 1, 1 1 gold badge 13 13 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. Subhan Ali Subhan Ali 1 1 1 bronze badge. I had considered that, but from a user-friendliness point, this is disastrous.
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